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Emeritus Prof Peter Appleby BE (1st class Hons), BSc, PhD

Emeritus Professor Mathematical Sciences

    Research

    Research Interest 1

    Modelling fallout radionuclides and their use as tools for studying environmental change.

    Research Grants

    Radiometric analyses and dating of sediment cores.

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (BELGIUM), MCGILL UNIVERSITY (CANADA), UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH (UK)

    August 2008 - March 2012

    European Mountain Lake Ecosystems: regionalisation, diagnostics and socio-economic evaluation (EMERGE).

    EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    February 2000 - January 2003

    Visiting IAEA Fellows.

    BRITISH COUNCIL (UK)

    October 2003 - March 2004

    Research Collaborations

    Dr Maria Letizia Filippi

    External: Museo Tridentino Scienze Naturali

    Dating lake sediment records as part of the CRENODAT project.

    Professor N J Anderson, Dr D B Ryves

    External: Loughborough University

    Dating environmental records in lake sediment cores from Greenland, and from Central Africa

    Professor John King

    External: University of Rhode Island

    Dating estuarine and saltmarsh sediments

    Dr Ann Power

    External: Edge Hill College of HE

    Dating sediment records from Urban Ponds on Merseyside

    Prof. Dr. Dirk Verschuren

    External: The University of Ghent

    Dating records of environmental change in lake sediment cores from Central Africa

    Dr Barbara Mauz

    Internal

    Analysis of uranium series radionuclides in sediment samples

    Annette Kramer

    External: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

    Dating sediment records from lakes on the Tibetan plateau

    Plater AJ,

    Internal

    Dating saltmarsh records